The Dillon tribune., 1887-12-09
CURRENT NEWS NOTES.

! rml''pe RosseAu, the French painter,
died in Paris on the 9th, aged 70 wears.
New Haven, Conn, voted for high Ii.
cense, on the 9th, by over 1000 majority.
a dispatch from Sydney, says: Hanlan,
the oarsman has accepted challenge for
| race from Tricket.
The annual report Of the Secretary of
war shows the expenditures Of the Depart.
men, during the fiscal year amount to
S41,sS6,l6s.
Judge Garnett, Of Chicago, disso'ed the
injunction rest, aiming the County Board
from declaring the town Of Hyde Park
annexed to Chicago, thus adding about Co..
GOO inhabitants to Chicago
The London Times publishes a letter
from Do|gelly, Wales, saying hundred
men have been engaged for several months
taking out ore which it is estimated will
yield six ounces Of gold to the ton.
Senator FarwelI will introduce in the
Senate, as soon as committees are formed,
a bill to perpetuate the national banking
system as provided for by title LNIl, Of
the Revised Statutes, and supplementary
acts.
Moscow dispatch, 7th: The Gazette says
"Ihe futur. policy Of France will decide
whether Germany will be compelled to
watch one or both OF her frontiers The
paper declares that Russia must always
have strong fleet in the Pacific ocean.
Eliza II. Snow, the Mormon poetess and
seeress, died at Salt Lake on the 9th. She
was alleged to be the plural wife of Joe
Smith at Nauvoo, which She afterwards
confessed and added Smith to her name
She was one OF the central figures in the
Mormon galaxy, and the church organ had
two columns of editorial on Her death
She was in her ith year.
The Governments receipts for the week
have been unusually large. According to
the special statement furnished by tho
Secretary Of the Treasury to the Washing.
ton correspondent Of Byad<trcet'S, the gross
receipts for the week ending December :
amounted to $S,o6:3,7S7 .o9, an increase ol
over $96o,ooo as compared with the week
preceding
London special to the New y ork H0yM
Sullivan and Mitchell met in well. known
sporting resort and signed articles for ;
fight for $4,000 side, according to Lon
don prize ring rules, in twenty. -four foo
ring. The fight will probably take place
shortly, and in England. Neither the time
nor place OF the meeting was mentioned
in the articles signed. They are to be ar
ranged between the seconds, the Phillip,
for Sullivan and Pony Moore for Mitchell
Berlin dispatch ofthe 7:h: The Nationa
Gazette discussing the Vienna Tremden
blatt article relative to the massing o.
troops on the Russian frontier says: sit i.
evident that the force of Russian troops
now in Poland is not sufficient to attack
the two formidable powers. The present
nassing of troops is too small for war and
too large for peace. We must wait and
see how Russia will reconcile the massine
with the pacific assurances of the Journal
DE- st. Petersburg"
Congressman Vandervcer thinks favor.
ably OF the scheme to establish postal
telegraph. He expresses the opinion thai
the bill should be introduced into bo IL,
houses at an early day, otherwise, when
the session got advanced it woald be mex,
to impossible to secure any result as, other
important matters would absorb all the at
tcntion OF Conyrcss. The people Of the
Pacific '-oast feel the need of postal tc!e.
graphy more than any one else
lhe New York 1;7bxuc, ot Yesterday,
contains long interview with Hon. lanes
&. Blaine on President Clevclauds mes.
sage. lie says: II have been reading an
abstract OF the Presidents message, and
have been interested in the comments OF
the London papers. Those papers ali AS.
sume to declare the message a free trade
and evidently anticipa,. an en-.
larsed market for english fabrics in the
Elted States As consequence OF the
Presidents recommendations Perhaps
that TACT stamped The character of
the message more clearly fllal any words
OF mine can
The The General thristian Conference
under the auspices ard direction of the
Evangelical Alliance tor the uted States.
opened at Washington, on Wednesday
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